FEDS should have taken over that entire sh*thole of an island the second the local gubmint was caught hoarding relief supplies after the hurricane. I was part of the FEMA effort during that time and from my end I saw what was going down there; then saw it sitting on the dock going to waste.
“FEDS should have taken over that entire sh*thole of an island ....”
The only problem being, “you touch it, you own it”.
As another major hurricane bears down on the United States, President Donald Trump has told reporters the federal government’s response to last year’s storm in Puerto Rico was “tremendous” and “one of the best jobs ever done.”
Almost on cue, pictures surfaced Tuesday night of what CBS News says is nearly a million bottles of water dumped at an airstrip in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September. By Wednesday morning, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confirmed that, yes, those were bottles of water that never reached any of the stricken Puerto Ricans, more than 3,000 of whom died in the aftermath of the storm.
We shoulda made Spain take Puerto Rico back.
Since we no longer use it as an Aircraft Carrier and bombing range, what is the point?